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Aug 3 2023
‘WOULD YOU LOOK WHO IT IS’
Road fatality sparks protest in North Clare by Páraic McMahon paraic@clareecho.ie
lAlice Feeney Lyons and Frank Howard enjoying the St. Michael’s Villas 70th Anniversary photo exhibition at Clare Museum Photo by Chris Copley
A PROTEST is to take place in Ballyvaughan today (Thursday) following the tragic death of local biker Jerry O’Connor last week. Jerry’s funeral took place on Monday with the Lisdoonvarna man pronounced dead at the scene last Thursday morning when he was involved in a collision with a French tourist who has since appeared in court charged with dangerous driving on the N67. Helga Himmeslbach, Jerry’s widow will be holding a protest in Ballyvaughan today (Thursday) at 10:30am to highlight the state of the roads in the locality and how dangerous they are. She also wishes to remind people to
take more care and attention when driving, and to look for more signage to remind the tourists to drive on the left side of the road. Karen Courtney of Doolin Pantry stated, “We hope to have many local people for an hour on Thursday morning to come and stand in support of Helga and highlight the dangers we have to deal with every day as locals around here”. On July 29, another collision took place with a tourist outside the Aran View Filling Station in Doolin with near-misses regularly reported in the locality.
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